[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#826215: Bug#826215: SysV init scripts using init-d-script have a hard dependency on sysvinit-utils

[Michael Biebl]

Am 03.06.2016 um 23:54 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
> [Michael Biebl]

> What about moving the init-d-script file to the same package containing
> /lib/init/vars.sh, which is needed by most init.d scripts and should be
> available on all Debian installations? 

/lib/init/vars.sh is currently shipped by initscripts and we were
actually discussing that moving that to sysvinit-utils because moving it
to sysv-rc doesn't really work (see pitti's bug report in that regard).

This doesn't solve the problem though, that such SysV init scripts have
a hard dependency on a sysvinit provided package, even if they ship a
native service file and we'd have to keep that package installed forever
in the future.
The redirection of /etc/init.d/foo <action> to systemctl <action> foo
would fail otherwise.
We could accept that breakage, but maybe we can do better. Moving the
inclusion of /lib/lsb/init-functions before /lib/init/init-functions-d
was an idea in that regard.
Do you have any concerns regarding that change?

Michael

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